Architecture mediates between man and nature, the philosopher and physicist Norman Sieroka wrote. In Presocratic times, man was understood as part of nature, but later, the concept of “unnatural” – in the sense of something “intellectual” or “technical” – came to be set against this.
Today, nature is identified with an environment that flourishes untouched by human hand. As soon as man intervenes, one speaks of an “artificial” or “cultural landscape”. In turn, the word “landscape” implies a spatial segment of our surroundings that is defined by the similarity or interrelationship of its parts, as in a mountain or urban landscape. Roof landscapes, therefore, are structures that form landscape-like entities in a specific context or that may even merge with the natural environment.
Today, nature is identified with an environment that flourishes untouched by human hand. As soon as man intervenes, one speaks of an “artificial” or “cultural landscape”. In turn, the word “landscape” implies a spatial segment of our surroundings that is defined by the similarity or interrelationship of its parts, as in a mountain or urban landscape. Roof landscapes, therefore, are structures that form landscape-like entities in a specific context or that may even merge with the natural environment.